Nothing short of religion could persuade a normal girl to make herself look so awful. - John Brunner

we’ve always predicated our quotations on the assumption that life expectancy in the United States would continue to rise. But during the past three years it has in fact started to go down.

our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preserving, which can similarly be triggered off only at a far higher level of stimulus

I am as guilty as you and you are as guilty as me. We can repent together or we can die together. It must be our joint decision.